March 24, 2007

MySpace.gov

" According to its profile,
Israel is a single female, 58 years old, a Taurus, who lives in Jerusalem.
(When asked if Israel's close ties with the United States meant that
she should perhaps be listed as "in a relationship," the young official
demurred.)"

Saranga and other Israeli officials are proud of Israel's MySpace page
and other nascent efforts to break into new media. They point to some
early improvement in relations that have gone beyond American youth.
"We were surprised by the kinds of people who wanted to be friends with
Israel," one of them told me, mentioning that the blog sometimes
receives visitors from Saudi Arabia and Iran. For a while, he said, Israel's bloggers were regularly conversing with
someone from the United Arab Emirates, though eventually it became
clear that he was only interested in trying to sell them real estate.

Sounds as if they've been having the same problems with comments as Neil Clark.